The R Project for Statistical Computing Getting Started. R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. It compiles and runs on a wide variety of UNIX platforms, Windows and MacOS. To download R, please choose your preferred CRAN mirror.
- Here, you can deselect any language files that you want to keep, such as the English files or your native language files. Step 3 Remove Unused Languages files from Mac. Once you have made all your selections, click on 'Delete' to remove the files. In a matter of seconds all unnecessary language files will be permanently removed from your system.
- Installing R on Mac OS is similar to Windows. Once again, The easiest way is to install it through CRAN by going to the CRAN downloads page and following the links as shown in the video below: The next step is to click on the 'R-3.6.2.pkg' (or newer version) file to begin the installation.
After some years as a MacPorts user I decided to give home brew a try, which are advertising their package manager with the sentence “Homebrew — MacPorts driving you to drink? Try Homebrew!”. The idea is not to build everything from scratch and create another software micro cosmos but to reuse existing Mac OS X abilities and save some space (as well as [cpu] time for updates). Sounds promising I thought and installed it according to the website’s description.
One of the first things I wanted to install was “The R Project for Statistical Computing”. Anyhow, since home brew requires people to think a bit, it was not as straight forward as some MacPorts rules.For R, we need to have a fortran compiler installed. I did this using the following command:
Brew would complain otherwise that no fortran compiler is installed and R installation would fail. After that, everything is ready already and we can proceed using:
Update R On Mac
NB! You need to run this command first if you are on a recent OS X:
R On Mac
That’s it - no rocket science but nice to know in advance…
Cheers,
iss
Cheers,
iss
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